Irvine, CA, USA
Lights in Irvine October 2007: Hoax
Report quality: Low28/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (35 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2007-10-12
- Where
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 33.669, -117.823 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-irvine-ca-2007-d24cae
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
October 2007 was a busy month for Irvine, CA: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 85 reports logged in Irvine, CA.
- This case is one of 587 California reports filed in 2007.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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